[FELIX-2838] Allow classes to be specifed as values for the @Property annotation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: maven-scr-plugin-1.6.0, scr annotations 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: maven-scr-plugin-1.7.0, scr ant task 1.1.0, scr annotations 1.5.0
• Component/s: SCR Tooling
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Felix Meschberger
• Created: 11/Feb/11 13:11
• Updated: 12/Mar/14 08:55
• Resolved: 22/Feb/11 17:16

Description

Sometimes the value of a DS property should be a fully qualified class name. In such cases these names must be written as class literals for the annotation to be processed.

It would be nice if one could write something like

@Property(name=theProperty, classValue=some.special.Operation.class)

to actually cause a string (or multi-value string) property of the form

theProperty = "some.special.Operation"

to be generated.

One such example is the value(s) of the "adaptables" and "adapters" service registration properties of Sling AdapterFactory services.